Say "Boy do I miss smoking" long enough and you will start to really believe it. Start to believe it and you will be primed for a relapse. Then you very likely will sit for months, years, and quite possibly decades thinking to your self, "Boy, I should have stayed off smoking while I had the chance." It will likely even get to the point when you are either totally debilitated or diagnosed with an illness that will can cause such suffering and pain that death will be a welcome relief. Then you will really curse the day you relapse. So will your survivors.
Everyone who is here and off smoking now has given him or herself the best chance at quality life that he or she ever will. But each person here is also the only one who can take away his or her Freedom.
For those of you spending time posting and thinking about how much you miss your smoking life, take some time out of your busy schedule of dwelling on smoking and do a little research and soul searching. As long as you are spending so much time fantasizing about smoking, spend a fraction of the time really considering long-term smoking and its consequences and you will be fine.
Wall of Remembrance and reread other areas at www.whyquit.com. Go back to your original posts here and see why you quit in the first place. Go visit the graves or go find some photos of some of your lost family members and friends who you know died prematurely from smoking and ask yourself if you think at the end of their lives that they were happy they smoked. Go ask their survivors if they now at least have a sense of peace or happiness that even though their loved ones were crippled and died early, they are "happy" that at least they know they had such a better quality of life and had so much more fun that they are glad in retrospect that their lost ones never quit smoking. See if they think to themselves that they hope that now they can teach their children to take up smoking so that they too can have so much more fun throughout life even though they know that they have to die for it.
If you can pull all this off and make yourself believe that smoking is worth it then smoking is right for you. Also a career in marketing for a tobacco industry or just being a drug pusher will suit you too. You will have proven that you have the talent it needs to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, especially your own. But if you can't honestly look into a child's face and tell them you hope they take up smoking one day, that no matter how dangerous it is the fun it will generate is worth dying for, well if you can't do that then stop telling it to the child in you. Tell yourself you want to live and recognize that life is really more fun the longer you can breathe. Tell yourself you are bound and determined that no matter who around you is going to continue to self-destruct, your personal choice for you is to never take another puff!
Joel
Sal
